Roman is of Russian descent and attended school in America. His interest in computers came from an interest in gaming — the original Nintendo, where many of us began our interest in video games, is where he started, but it was also with a joke,

In the USSR, we didn’t joke about our current presidents and leaders, just the past ones. There was a General Secretary, Leonid Brezhnev, hired a technician to install a computer system for him. Once the technician was done, the technician told Brezhnev that the new computer would cut his workload in half. To which, Brezhnev responded, “Well then, can I have another one?”

This, coupled with some computer classes at Cleveland High School helped him realize where he wanted his career path: Information Technologies.

Roman graduated and attended Lee University and double-majored in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration. When he was 19, just a junior at Lee, he was hired at Computers of Cleveland. There, he worked diligently applying the skills he was learning at Lee. Shortly after his graduation, the owners offered to sell Computers of Cleveland to him.

He worked with his parents and family to get financed and bought it immediately. At 22, only 6 years after arriving in the United States, Roman was a graduate and business owner in his adopted land. He still works with small businesses in the area and seeks to help the community in the many ways that he was helped as a teenager in an immigrant family.